GitHub is down again for the second time in the span of a monthm this time from a Denial of Service Attack. Here's their most recent status update: "We are experiencing issues due to a DDOS attack, working hard to restore service"

GitHub is down again for the second time in the span of a month — this time from a Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS). To combat, GitHub says it has temporarily disabled service on port 80 while they nvestigate the source of a connection flood. According to the site, HTTPS, GIT, and SSH service are unaffected.

Here’s the status update about the attack when it hit at 1:33 p.m:

We are experiencing issues due to a DDOS attack, working hard to restore service